Today is the one week anniversary of the new single, Kanashii Uso's release.

Ah...

time flies by too quickly.

Anyway, photos!!

And guess what! I started twitter. Do you twitter? Follow me :)

I am also writing a blog (unfortunately it's only in Japanese but at least there's pictures! and I update that almost every day. and sometimes more than once a day) on ameblo --> ameblo.jp/tianaxiao

And last but definitely not least, help me out by voting for me on Kiss FM!

Thanks guys! <3 BTW, I am trying this thing where I go to sleep early and wake up early (a.k.a. developing better health habits), so I gotta go to bed now. Or soon. After I write the Chinese version of this entry.

Good night :)

Yesterday we went to Gunma-ken for my new single, Kanashii Uso's release event. The entire staff from my management company went with me... it was like, road trip!

Anyways, pictures!! ^_^

Road trip!!

The blurriness adds to the aesthetic feel of the photo. Actually, the car was just moving too fast. Sorry, I tried.

Hi everyone, it's Tiana! How's it going?

I actually thought about making an animated GIF out of the following photos, but I performed twice yesterday, and even though the dresses look similar, the patterns and fabric are different... so it would look really weird as an animated GIF. You can always imagine ^_~

"Mmm, this microphone looks tasty." RAWR.

RAWR x2? Yeah, I guess I was just THAT into the song... ^^;;

"Oh, my goodness. After singing so much and using up so much energy, I am hungry again!" :P

Hey, it's Tiana!! OMG!!! :P The guy who is acting the role of "stalker" is the President of my Management company. LOL. He's a cool guy.

So by the way, I do have another live performance coming up this Saturday @ Sun Street, Kameido, and if you're in the area, come see me! Hope to see you there!

(Details can be found here.)

OMG! BTW, I'm up to rank #3 on Kiss FM (Please see previous blog entries for more details)! Come on, everybody~ let's gather the amount of votes from three different countries (or more. LOL)! Keep voting for me, k? ^_~ <3 ya!!

The power of one may be small.

But if we gather the powers of each and every one of us,

together, we can achieve great things.

As John Donne once said,

No man is an island.

And using the words of our awesome new President,

YES, we can.

OMG... Kanashii Uso is coming out on Wednesday!

I'm so nervous...

And actually, I'm doing a live performance on the same day! (I guess they call it a Release Live.)

If you're in the area, please come see me! I'll need all the support I can get ^_^

Details can be found here.

Thanks <3 And keep voting for me on Kiss FM (please see previous blog entry)! <3

Hmm...
This happened on Monday, sorry I wasn't able to write it until now! I've been really busy lately.

So,
I went karaoke-ing again! This time it was with my Director and the recording engineer we worked with on the upcoming single, Kanashii Uso. ("Kanashii Uso" means "Sorrowful Lie." I know it sounds kinda tacky in English, but it's actually pretty catchy and pretty cool in Japanese.)

(Right. We had dinner first. And actually, we were supposed to do only dinner, until we passed by a karaoke box on the way back to the train station, and I was like, "Hey! We should go karaoke-ing next time!" And my director goes, "You wanna go now?" And I was like, "Yeah, kind of!" And then he goes, "Shall we?" And I was like, "YEAH! Let's go now!" LOL! It felt soooo good to do something so spontaneous like that. I haven't been this spontaneous in a LONG time, and it just feels... liberating. :))

I'm on a anything sweet except for fruits and juices, etc. + Korean BBQ fast right now, and the store people were really nice and even brought us a fruit plate (that was not on the menu) after we finished our main dish!

Okay, I am going to have to keep this short because I still have work tomorrow and it's already 2:29 AM. (Sorry! ^^;;)

I wanna go karaoke-ing again!!

Karaoke-ing.

Waiting for our trains.

Alrighty~ I have to go to bed!

P.S. I am currently in this contest, and it would be awesome if I could get your vote! Here is the website. It's a contest for Kiss FM in Japan, and if I win, they're gonna put my song on PowerPlay (which means they will play it a lot)! I'm currently ranked #4, and sorry the website is entirely in Japanese, but you can see the icon, I'm the first one, just click on that, and then click the button that looks like this (it has my name written on it):

(Or you can directly click here and you'll see the following screen)

(And then it opens a new window, and all you have to do is click the button under my picture. You can also leave me a message and it'll show up on Kiss FM's website later on, starting from the second time you vote.)
You can click it up to 10 times every hour or so! (Yes, you can vote multiple times. So whenever you guys have time, click away! ^_~)

Thanks guys, I'm counting on you! <3 Love ya~

It's Mother's Day today! Happy Mother's Day!

I miss you, mom. ^_^ <3

(Oh! And I found some photos of me when I was a kid! Look! ^_^)

Mommy and me, Arizona State University. Mom is so pretty... No, she is absolutely stunningly beautiful. :)

I am the kid on the right with the really big smile (in orange). As for the kid on the left... I have no idea who it is. Hmm, could it be my boyfriend from that time?? Whoaaaaa!!! Hmm. Actually, I don't even know if this kid is a guy or girl.

Today I went with my management company's staff and CEO to karaoke!

Mr. CEO and the Chief Manager tried to sing my songs. (LOL)

They didn't exactly pass, since my songs are super hard to sing (=P try it, and you'll know.), but the CEO is actually a pretty good singer (overall). I was genuinely surprised. And his English is pretty good too--I didn't know that until recently... we've ALWAYS _only_ spoken Japanese whenever we talked to each other before this week! And the only reason he started speaking English in front of me is because I am teaching some of the staff in my management company English, and he was trying to help them out a bit.

Anyways. Karaoke is fun. I wanna go again.

Hey!

How's it going? ^_^

I meant to write this sooner but I was just so busy during the past few days that I couldn't update until now! Sorry! ^^;;

Alrighty, so my birthday was this past Wednesday, and one of my friends threw me a party at her place! <3 It was sooo much fun. I don't have that many friends in Japan, so she invited some of her friends, and the party lasted from about 1 PM to 11 PM! I remember when I was growing up, my mom would always host these birthday parties after we moved into our new house, and she would invite a bunch of people from Chinese school (we had to attend these on Saturdays)--mainly the parents... and I would invite all my friends from school, and sometimes mere acquaintances, or even frenemies (LOL), and my mom would buy this huge cake with fruit filling--only one bakery/cake shop had this type of cake in Arizona (I think. And then when we moved to Cali it was like, oh, wow, there's lots of these! Despite its occasional limited resources, however, I love my hometown. Anyways.), and this bakery was over an hour drive away from where we lived--and another smaller cake for my younger brother, because our birthdays fall on the same day, just a few years apart. ^_~ (and my brother didn't invite his entire social circle, unlike I. The parents of my friends, a.k.a. mainly the Chinese school bunch, which my mom invited, also ate from my cake instead of my brother's.)

(I kind of wanna add a side note, because I was really excited the first time I found out about this, and still am. My brother and I have the same birthday as Japan's last emperor, Showa Tenou. April 29th also happens to mark the beginning of Golden Week, the longest vacation period of the year in Japan. This is one of my favorite things about Japan--my birthday is a national holiday!)

And we would order pizza and my mom would cook a LOT of Chinese food, and it wasn't a party like they throw on the Upper East Side (ref: Gossip Girl), but I genuinely enjoyed every single party my mom threw for me.

And I would have sleepovers for all my close girlfriends...

... and we would play truth or dare (hey, I was in middle/high school)

Ah, nostalgia. :)

Anyways, so my party this year wasn't that many people (relatively speaking), but we brought out the true definition of international. ^_~ The people at my party consisted of the following ethnicities/nationalities (listed in no particular order): French Canadian, Polish/French American, Mainland Chinese, Hong Kong, Japanese, Malaysian, and Chinese American (me)! It was like an U.N. conference, only more casual and with pizza and sushi.

Okay, time for photos!

Birthday wish!!

U.N. Conference Group Shot 1

U.N. Conference Group Shot 2

And for my birthday celebration, part II, my friend surprised me by bringing me to Disneyland!!

Tiana in Wonderland...

Yes, I was THAT happy to be there. :P Disney should hire me for their ads. This face (and pose) is literally the living epitome of what one *should* look like in the "happiest place on earth."

Okie, I gtg write the other two languages and go to bed~

P.S. The swine flu... is everybody okay? I'm glad countries all around the world are reacting so quickly to try to contain the flu, and I hope they come out with the vaccine soon. Take care, guys. G'nite. <3